“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”
Others on Emotions
Golda Meir
3 quotes“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”
Neal Shusterman
2 quotes“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
Carl Sandburg
2 quotes“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Balzac
2 quotes“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Madeleine L'Engle
1 quote“Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with e...”
Elizabeth Gilbert
1 quote“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
Maya Angelou
1 quote“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Buddha
1 quote“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like gre...”
Amy Poehler
1 quote“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.”
George Eliot
1 quote“The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.”